Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,694, Peter Dixon, Va.

SERVICE
Dixon, Peter
NUMBER
S. 32.694
Va.
CONTENTS

Let to J. B. King, Aug 4. 1835
Marana 29. 702
Peter Dixon
of Fountain Co in the State of Indiana who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Henderson of the Regt, commanded by Col Major Hamilton in the Virginia mil line for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 d day of Feb. 1835 and sent to Hon. E. H. Hanezan H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 34. 105.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 March 35. 15.00
$120.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E 2. Vol. 7 Page 120

32, 119
Peter Dixon Indiana
Mr. E. A. Hanegean
for 1777 p 19 months $30
3
Rev. E. A. Hanegean A. R.

State of Indiana Harrison County Set
On this day (Thursday) the fifteenth day of September A.D. 1854, personally appeared before the Hon. John P. Kinkead  and James H. Hendrick Benedict Morris and Robert Belford to associate judges in and for said County, near Salem, Peter Dipeu aged seventy four- years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarative, in order to claim the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832, That he entered the Service of the United States, & served under the following named Officers, (Volunteers) he was drafted for six months at the Reserve Station called Warrick Station , in the month of February 1818. in the company commanded, by Captain John Henderson Lieutenant John Wood. The regiment, or Battalion commanded by Major Andrew Hamilton in Greene or Gibson , State of Virginia, marched from thence to Fort Crisp, where joined the Volunteers from Bedford Co., under the command of Major James D. Smith . These Volunteers six or eight weeks. They were marched thence  to through the wilderness to Colonel Benjamin Logan's Station in Kentucky for the purpose of forming the light commanded by General George R. Clark on an expedition against the Indians in the N.W. part of the State of Ohio we arrived too late to join said troops. They had marched some considerable time before we arrived at said Station We were stationed at Col. Logan's until General Clark returned to Kentucky from the Old Chillicothe Indian Towns. At this period I had been transferred to the company of Captain John Wood who had been promoted to the office of Captain, I was marched

back to Franklin County Virginia. I was there at the time I was charged, by my said Captain John Rogers, discharged the last days of July or the first days of August 1778. Served the above six months as private as above.
The circumstances that brought a second term of service were as follows: About in the fall of the year 1780, I engaged in the company of Capt. Henry Baughman to protect a company of men to Kentucky. I arrived to a place near the Crab Orchard, we encamped at night. The Indians broke in upon our encampment, and killed six of us, and wounded one, the remaining part retired to the Station. I remained in the Station about two or three weeks. I then volunteered in the company of Captain Andrew Stinkade Lieutenant James Calwell at Whitley's Station in Kentucky in the month of November 1780. in the Regiment of Ballinton Commanders, by Colonel Benjamin Logan, marched from thence to the Ohio river, crossed the same at the mouth of Logging , from thence we marched to the Old, Chillicothe Indian Towns, thence to the head of the Miami , there destroyed the Indian Towns, destroyed their (the Indians) corn and other property. Then returned home to Kentucky, and were discharged by Col. Logan, at the Yates in Month of January 1781. Served not less than, three months upon the above named time I was a private in the company of forward.
On the first term as alluded to in my declaration I was drafted for the term of six months . Declarant further saith that he has no documentary evidence of his services, but is able to prove his first term of service in the war of the Revolution, by his Brother George Dugan who served with him a part of said term, and that, he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name, is not on

The petition of Peter Dixon and others
his Peter Dixon mark
W B White C. L. Clerk
And the said court do hereby show of record that the value named applicant had as the testimony, Soldier and served as he stated
Robert Milford
Benedict Me.
I William B White Clerk of the court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Peter Dixon for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office
This fifteenth day of September A.D. 1834
W B White Clerk
The Interrogatories prescribed by the War Depart
1st Where and in what Newgen Barn, and Born in Augusta Co Virginia A.D. 1760
2nd I have no record of my age
3rd I was living in Greenbrier Co Virginia since the Revolutionary war in the State of Kentucky, and now reside in Indiana
4th On the first trip I was drafted for six months On the 2nd trip I volunteered at Whitley Station Kentucky
5th I cannot state the names of any officer or officers known by me to be regular officers The Military Regiments or Battalions that I served in
Major Thomas Trist's Regiment or Battalion Col Benjamin Logan and General Clark
6th same H. Garrison and Peter Dixon Junr Peter Dixon
Sworn and subscribed to in open court this 15th day of September 1834
Robert Milford Benedict Me.

Peter Duxons - and Joseph Swopes affidavits

State of Indiana } Personally appeared before me Warren County } the undersigned Justice of the peace ss. in and for said County Peter Dixon, aged fifty Years, Who after being duly sworn deposes & saith that he has been well acquainted with his Uncle Peter Dixon, who is an applicant for a pension, as this deponent is informed, for services rendered the United States during the War of the Revolution, And that he this deponent perfectly recollects of hearing the said Peter Dixon, state more than thirty years since, that he the said Peter, was drafted for the term of six months, in Greenbrier County Virginia, in the War of the Revolution, for to march to Kentucky, for the purpose of joining General Clark on an expedition against the Indians North West of the Ohio River, That he the said Peter was marched, to Fort Chissell, and my Father George Dixon, was sent on an express to Kentucky, and that the said Peter was det- ained at said Fort, until the Bedford Co militia arrived, under the command of Major, Thomas Lusk when they all were marched, to Kentucky to Logans Station, and that said Peter afterwards volunteered and served a tour under Colonel Logan again- st the Indians N.W. of Ohio River

This deponat further saith, that he never heard that the statements of said, Peter Dixon, was doubted, and that he has been always esteemed, for truth and veracity, in the neighbourhood where he has lived.
Sworn and subscribed to this 22 nd day of December. A.D. 1834 before me John R. King Peter his Dixon mark
State of Indiana Warren County ss
Personally appeared before the under- signed Justice of the Peace, in and for said County Joseph Swope of Montgomery County Indiana, who after being duly sworn according to law Deposeth & says that he has been acquainted with Peter Dixon who he is informed is an applicant, for a Pension from the United States for services by him rendered during the Revolutionary. For more than thirty years, in the States of Kentucky and Virginia. And this deponat perfectly recollects, of hearing, the said Dixon relate at divers times, that he had been a soldier of the Revolution and further this deponat saith, that he has heard his the deponats Father and said Dixon relate that they had served together in the War of the Revolution on a campaign as drafted Militia, from Greenbrier Coun- ty Virginia to Genl Clark to go against the Indians. and further this said deponat saith that during the time he has been acquainted

with the said Peter Dixon, it being thirty years last past, as aforesaid. That the said Dixon was always esteemed, and reputed in the neighbourhood where he resided to be a soldier of the Revolution and a man of truth and veracity.
Joseph Swooke
Swooke and subscribed to before me this 22 nd day of December A D 1834 John B King JP
I hereby certify, that Joseph Swooke and Peter Dixon who has sworn and subscribed, the foregoing affidavits are credible persons, whose statements is entitled to credit in relation to truth and veracity.
John B. King JP
State of Indiana Warren County ss
I James Cunningham Clerk of the Warren County circuit courts do hereby certify that John B. King, Before whom the foregoing affidavits appear to have been made was at the time of making the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn as such, and that the signatures purporting to be his are his genuine signatures.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 23 rd day of December A D 1834
J B Cunningham Clerk

State of Indiana 3/11/34 Warren County
Be it known on the 15 th day of September A.D. 1834 Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, George Dixon who after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and saith that that he entered the service of the United States, in the war of the Revolution at the Station of Purvisack , in the Co. of Greenbrier in the State of Virginia with his Brother Peter Dixon who has this day in open Court known and subscribed a declaration in order to obtain a pension, that I served with him in the same Company (called) the Company of Captain Wenderson Lt John Wood commanded by Major Andrew Hamilton until we came to Fort Chase when we was separated and I was sent to Kentucky in an expedition as will more fully be elucidated by reference to my declaration now on file in the War Office, and likewise that the said Peter Dixon served out the term of six months for which he was drafted and further this deponent saith that he has heard his Brother Peter Dixon , relate that he volunteered at Whitley's Station in Kentucky under Col Logan and that in consequence of the Indians, having murdered a part of the Company of emigrants, that were moving to Kentucky (of which Peter Dixon was one) Col Logan raised as many troops as could be raised and pursued the Indians to their Council for the purpose of redress and further this deponent saith not
George Dixon
Sworn and subscribed before me this 15 th day of September in 1834 John B. King Clerk

State of Indiana Warren County ss
I certify that George Dixon who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a credible witness whose statements are entitled to credit John B. King Peace
State of Indiana Warren County ss
Be it known that on the 16th day of September 1834 personally appeared before me, John B. King, a Justice of the peace in and for said County. I learned Mr. Garrison, who depose to and said upon his solemn oath duly administered, that he believes Peter Dixon, who has  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now  is  now  has  now>
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<p>Sworn and subscribed to this 16th day of September 1834 before me John B. King Peace </div>

32 694 Pay INVALID.
File No. 32,694
Peter Dixon
His Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 398
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Baltimore Warren Co Indiana December 25 th 1834.
I herewith return the papers, of Peter Dixon, for re-examination gather to you with a letter to the Honorable Edward A. Wannegan who is personally with me, &c. attended to me - Mr Dixon at the Circuit Court at Covington last Fall It is my opinion that in said Peter Dixon is entitled by the act of June 7 th 1832 to one years service not he has not claimed in his Declaration He states to me and his Brother George Dixon say he will make the same claim  under th that he Brother Peter served in the at Vaucluse Sta as in December Co orgina one year and drew his pay and rations, for which he has claimed nothing Very Respectfully Yours
J. J. Edwards Esq.
John B. King

Jan 29 1852
W. H. Brown 100 Nassau St New York
Report this case to Hon. E. A. Haneigan & enclose the accom- panying letter to him.

Bathurst Warren County Indiana December 25 th 1834.
Dear Warrington
I herewith transmit you to your care; the papers in the case of Peter Dixon, whose case you attended to, for me, at the court Circuit, at Bloomington, last fall; You will recollect him by re being one of the extraordinary, old men that sat in court on the night of the trial . I merely believe the testimony furnished by said Applicant to be sufficient, to entitle him to the benefit of the law of Congress of June 7 1832 — the service by one in  the Ohio, Witness his services in Part; in the War of the Revolution, and other strong traditional evidence of his services, the doubts of the Department in relation to the military of Virginia being, drafted for six months, on the Frontier, do not appear doubtful to me in the least. The circumstance of the Militia being drafted in the 1778, of Virginia, to join General Clerk then at the Falls Ohio, for the purpose of going against the Indians, appears reasonable that they were drafted for so long a period they had to march near five hundred miles, through a track less wilderness; before they could even reach the Falls which would certainly consume considerable time; more than three months, would have been consumed in march- ing to the Falls and back without rendering the country

any since more, than to march to the Fall and back to Virginia at the same time they being - raised for the purpose of going against the Indians, integrated by the British at the mouth of the Ohio river
Respectfully Your Sincere friend
John R. King
Edward A. Wainwright Esq
Hon E. A. Wainwright House of Representatives

Affidavits of George T. Daxon & Samuel W. Garrison

State of Indiana Warren County 3d
I certify that Samuel H. Harrison who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a credible Witness whose statements are entitled to credit.
John B. King - Officer
State of Indiana Warren County 3d
I James Cunningham Clerk of the court in and for said County, do hereby certify that John B King before whom the foregoing affidavit, appears to have been made, was at the time thereof, and is still an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and I believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this day of September 1834.
James Cunningham - Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Dixon, Robert GRADE Private LINE Rhode Island
WARRANT NUMBER 3079 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Dec. 31, 1789 To — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.